KEPOET OF THE STATU BOTANIST 155 



Spikes 2-4, oblong, ovoid or cylindrical, densely flowered, 

 erect, ^'-o" broad or more, ^'-1' long, the upper half or more of 

 the terminal one fertile, staminate and stalk-like at the base, the 

 others all fertile or nearly so; bracts leaf-like, the lowest shorter 

 or longer than the culm. 



Spikes brown f usca. 



Spikes green, perigynia pupescent virescens. 



Spikes green, perigynia smooth triceps. 



52. Carex fusca All. 



Stems 15-30' high, erect, or sometimes curved at the summit, 

 acutely angled, rough above; leaves subradical, V wide, shorter 

 than the culm, rough-margined ; spikes 2— 4-, the terminal one 

 staminate at the base, all approximate, or somewhat scattered, 

 sessile, erect, the upper ones with filiform or bristle-form bracts, 

 the lowest short-peduncled or sometimes on a spreading stalk 

 1' long and subtended by a leafy bract l'-5' long, mostly densely 

 flowered, oblong-ovoid, or cylindrical, 3"-12" in length or more, 

 2i"-H" thick, dark-brown or mottled ; perigynia elliptical, 

 prominently nerved, light green, with a minute, entire or slightly 

 notched point, shorter than the lanceolate, cuspidate, dark- brown 

 scale, the latter more or less divergent at maturity. (C. Buxbaumii 

 Wahl.) 



Bogs and wet places. Albany, Essex, Genesee and Seneca 

 counties. June, July, 



The slender, mostly naked culms, and the short thick erect 

 dark-colored or mottled spikes sufficiently distinguish this species. 



53. Carex triceps Mx. 



Stems 12'-20' high, stiff, scabrous above; leaves about the 

 length of the culm, 1"-1^' wide, erect, more or less pubescent, the 

 sheaths densely hairy, pale-green ; spikes 3-4, the terminal stami- 

 nate at its base, all contiguous, sessile or nearly so, erect, ovate, 

 ovoid or oblong, 3"-S" long, 2''-3'' thick, densely flowered ; bracts 

 leafy or filiform, the lowest, and sometimes all, exceeding the 

 culm, perigynia ovate, obtuse, nerved, smooth or hairy before 

 maturity, longer than the ovate, acute, short-awned, variable 

 scale. 



Dry soil in pastures copses and thin woods. Common. June. 



